We’ve got the bye round coming up next weekend. Sometimes when you get two days off in a row (for the bye or after a Friday night game) you just want to do nothing – a lot of the guys would look forward to those days because it doesn’t come around very often.

A lot of boys play golf on their days off. I know there’s a group of them like Richy, Claye, Roh, Greeny and Golbs who play golf weekly. I don’t think they’d play anything more competitive besides golf, it would be too taxing, I suppose.

On a day off, a fair bulk of the players would be happy to get together and play XBOX. I know a few of the young boys do that. I don’t know about weekends, but during the week, if they’re not in the players’ lounge they’ll be at someone’s house playing.

Most of the guys from interstate will use the bye round as an opportunity to head back home for the four day break. The ones with kids will usually hang around in Brisbane and spend that time with family.

I’m going to head over to Moreton Island late on Friday next week. I’ll take the car, stay over there and camp the weekend.

There are a few of the players going down to Byron Bay. Cian, Harris and Archie are heading there and Stakes is going to Sydney.

Most of the guys will use that time to get away from the Club.

This season I will be writing for lions.com.au about some of the things I like to get up in my down time and during the off-season. I will also be chatting to a few of the boys about what they like to do in their down time, so stay tuned for more!